Here’s what I read in 2017….
December 2017
Dance of the Happy Shades, by Alice Munro
The Hate U Give, by Angie Thinas
The Writer’s Diet, by Helen Sword
Wild Swans, by Jung Chang
Stories About Storytellers, by Douglas Gibson
The Self-Love Experiment, by Shannon Kaiser
My Life with Bob, by Pamela Paul
Ignore Everybody, by Hugh McLeod
Sing, Unburied Sing, by Jesmyn Ward
The Examined Life, by Stephen Grosz
You’ve Got a Book in You, by Elizabeth Sims
November 2017
The Abundance, by Annie Dillard
The Four Tendencies, by Gretchen Rubin
The Cursing Mommy’s Book of Days, by Ian Frazier
Blue Shoes, by Anne Lamott
Everyman, by Philip Roth
The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
I Found You, by Lisa Jewell
October 2017
Open – An Autobiography, by Andre Agassi
Being Mortal, by Atul Gawanda
Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Fully Loaded Life, by Hannah Hart
Uncommon Type, by Tom Hanks
The Gift of Anger, by Arun Gandhi
My Name is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout
note to self, by Connor Franta
What Happened, by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Best Friends Forever, by Irene S Levine
The Friend Who Got Away, ed Offill & Schappell
A Fall of Marigolds, by Susan Meissner
Bad Endings, by Carleigh Baker
I Am Pilgrim, by Terry Hayes
September 2017
Finding Reliable Information Online, by Leslie F. Stebbins
The Dance of Fear, by Harriet Lerner
Rewire, by Richard O’Connor
The Dance of Connection, By Harriet Lerner
Why Won’t You Apologize, by Harriet Lerner
The Headmaster’s Wager, by Vincent Lam
Lion, By Saroo Brierley
Undone, by John Colapinto
The Road to Character, by David Brooks
Solitude – A Singular Life in a Crowded World, by Michael Harris
F**k It – Do What You Love, by John Parkin
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides
August 2017
The Most of Nora Ephron, by Nora Ephron
Be Bad First, by Erika Andersen
The Art of Work, by Jeff Goin
The Art of Slow Writing, by Louise DeSalvo
The Book That Matters Most, by Ann Hood
When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Greer
In Her Shoes, by Jennifer Weiner
Let it Bleed, by Pamela Des Barres
The Magic Memoir, by Linda Myers
Why We Write About Ourselves, by Meredith Maran
Good in Bed, by Jennifer Weiner
The Art of Living, by Epictetus, Sharon Lebell
July 2017
Hungry Heart, by Jennifer Weiner
How Will You Measure Your Life, by Clayton Christensen
The Writing Life, by Anne Dillard
Bear Town, by Fredrik Backman
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, by Andrew Greer
Still Life With Breadcrumbs, by Anna Quindlen
We Were the Mulvaneys, by Joyce Carol Oates
The Spinning Heart, by Donal Ryan
Indian Horse, by Richard Wagamese
The China Study, by Campbell and Campbell
Absence of Mind, by Marilynne Robinson
How Did You Get My Number, by Sloane Crosley
Whole, by T. Colin Campbell
How Not to Die, by Michael Greger
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine, by Alexander McCall Smith
Do Not Say We Have Nothing, by Madeleine Thien
June 2017
The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields
David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell
The Ripple Effect, by Greg Wells
Magpie Murders, by Anthony Horowitz
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter, by Kate Clifford Larson
Since We Fell, by Dennis Lehane
The Lucky Coin Variety, by Ann Y.K. Choi
The Gene, by Siddhartha Mukherjee
May 2017
The Break, by Katherina Vermette
Everybody’s Son, by Thrity Umrigar
The Daughter, by Jane Shemilt
The Colour of Our Sky, by Amita Trasi
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
Children of Earth and Sky, by Guy Gavriel Kay
April 2017
Three Sisters, Three Queens, by Philippa Gregory
The Right to Write, by Julia Cameron
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, by David Sedaris
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
City of Friends, by Joanna Trollope
March 2017
They Left Us Everything, by Plum Johnson
The Sympathizer, by Viet Than Nguyen
The Husband’s Secret, By Liane Moriarty
Lila, by Marilynne Robinson
My Life on the Road, by Gloria Steinem
The Wonder, by Emma Donoghue
The Beauty Myth, by Naomi Wolf
The Female Eunuch, by Germaine Greer
Walking in the World, by Julia Cameron
February 2017
A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara
The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg
Big Little Lies, by Liane Moriarty
The Scarlett Letter, by Nathanielle Hawthorne
Fear of Flying, by Erika Jong
Walking on Trampolines, by F. Whiting
The Five Thieves of Happiness, by J. Izzo
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Aza Nafisi
Living Beautifully, by Pema Chodron
Uncomfortable with Uncertainty, by Pema Chodron
January 2017
Inventing the Rest of Our Lives, by S. Braun Levine
60, by Ian Brown
How to Medidate, by Pema Chodron
Mindset, by Carol Dweck
The Marshmallow Test, by Walter Mischel
The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
Anam Cara, By John O’Donohue
Lone Wolf, by Jodi Picoult
End of Watch, by Stephen King
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, by Amy Schumer